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unusual facts about Moscone-Milk assassinations


Charles Gain

After Moscone was assassinated in 1978, the union was influential in engineering Gain's replacement after the resulting White Night riots.


New College of California

He was first appointed to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in January 1979 by Mayor Dianne Feinstein, succeeding Harvey Milk, who was assassinated in City Hall along with Mayor George Moscone by Supervisor Dan White.

Quentin L. Kopp

However, in 1978, mayor George Moscone was assassinated along with civil rights leader Harvey Milk at City Hall, making Feinstein, then President of the Board of Supervisors, the new mayor.

The Times of Harvey Milk

Other politicians including San Francisco mayor George Moscone (who was assassinated with Milk), and Moscone's successor and now United States Senator Dianne Feinstein appear in archival footage.


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